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050	0	0	_aQK936 _b.S39 1995
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245	0	0	_aSeasonally dry tropical forests / _cedited by Stephen H. Bullock, Harold A. Mooney, and Ernesto Medina.
264		1	_aCambridge : _bCambridge University Press, _c1995.
300			_a1 online resource (xvii, 450 pages) : _bdigital, PDF file(s).
336			_atext _btxt _2rdacontent
337			_acomputer _bc _2rdamedia
338			_aonline resource _bcr _2rdacarrier
500			_aTitle from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).
505	0		_aIntroduction / Harold A. Mooney -- Dry forests of Central America and the Caribean / Peter G. Murphy --Overview of the Brazilian caatinga / Everardo V.S.B. Sampaio -- Savannas, woodlands and dry forests in Africa / J.C. Menaut -- Dry forest ecosystems of Thailand / Philip W. Rundel -- The Cenozoic record of tropical dry forest in northern Latin America and the southern United States / Alan Graham -- Diversity and and floristic composition of neotropical dry forests / Alwyn H. Gentry -- Vertebrate diversity, ecology and conservation in neotropical dry forests / Gerardo Ceballos -- Diversity of life forms of Higher plants in neotropical dry forests / Ernesto Medina -- Drought responses of neotropical dry forest trees / Michele Holbrook -- Plant reproduction in neotropical dry forests / Stephen H. Bullock -- Plant-herbivore interactions in Mesoamerican tropical dry forests / Rodolfo Dirzo -- Biomass distribution and primary productivityof tropical dry forests / Angelina Martinez-Yrizar -- Nutrient cycling in tropical decciduous forests / Victor J. Jaramillo -- Biology of the belowground system of tropical dry forests / Elvira Cuevas -- -- Nitrogen trace gas emissions in a tropical dry forest s ecosystem / Pamela A. Matson -- Conversion of tropical dry forests to pasture and agriculture / J. Manuel Maass -- Ethnobotany of the Mexican tropical dry forests / Robert Bye.
520			_aProlonged seasonal drought affects most of the tropics, including vast areas presently or recently dominated by 'dry forests'. These forests have received scant attention, despite the fact that humans have used and changed them more than rain forests. This volume reviews the available information, often making contrasts with wetter forests. The world's dry forest heterogeneity of structure and function is shown regionally. In the neotropics, biogeographic patterns differ from those of wet forests, as does the spectrum of plant life-forms in terms of structure, physiology, phenology and reproduction. Biomass distribution, nutrient cycling, below-ground dynamics and nitrogen gas emission are also reviewed. Exploitation schemes are surveyed, and examples are given of non-timber product economies. It is hoped that this review will stimulate research leading to more conservative and productive management of dry forests.
650		0	_aForest ecology _zTropics.
700	1		_aBullock, Stephen H., _eeditor.
700	1		_aMooney, Harold A., _eeditor.
700	1		_aMedina, Ernesto, _eeditor.
776	0	8	_iPrint version: _z9780521435147
856	4	0	_uhttps://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511753398
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